THE UNION AND CONFEDERATE NAVIES.
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chased by the Confederate Gov-ernment. The most importantwere the Jamestown and theYorktown (afterward the PatrickHenry) at Richmond ; the 8el-den at Norfolk ; the Beaufort,
Raleigh , Winslow, and Hllis,screw-tugs plying on the Chesa-peake and Albemarle Canal;the side-wheel passenger boatsSeabird and Curlew, in theNorth Carolina Sounds; theNashville at Charleston , and theEverglade at Savannah .
The Star of the West, whosename had been on everybody’slips after the attack made uponher in January, 1861, while shewas attempting to relieve PortSumter, had subsequently sailedon transport service to Indian-ola, Texas , where she was seizedin April by a party of Texan volunteers. In the Confederatenavy she became the St. Philip.
She was stationed at New Or-leans as a receiving-ship whenFarragut passed the forts, andfled with other vessels up theMississippi River , taking refuge finally in the Yazoo. In March, 1863, whenthe ships of the Yazoo Pass expedition descended the windings of the Talla-hatchie to attack Fort Pemberton, they found the river barricaded by the hullof a sunken vessel, which was no other than the once-famous Star of the West.
The purchases and seizures made at New Orleans enabled the ConfederateGovernment to equip at that point its only considerable fleet. The vesselsfitted out successively by Commodores Rousseau and Hollins included theHabana, afterward the Sumter, in which Semmes made his first commerce-destroying cruise; the Enoch Train, which was altered into a ram and calledthe Manassas; the Florida and Pamlico, employed on Lake Pontchartrain;the Marques de la Habana (McRae), the Webb, Yankee (Jackson), Gros-tete(Maurepas), Linde Simmons (Pontchartrain), Ivy, General Polk, and a fewothers of smaller size. The State of Louisiana and the citizens of NewOrleans also made purchases of vessels on their own account. Thus theGovernor Moore and the General Quitman, which took part in the action at theforts, were State vessels; and the Enoch Train was originally purchased byprivate subscription. There were also a large number of flat-boats or coal-
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